MUMBAI: The New York Film Festival (NYFF) recently screened an unfinished version of Martin Scorsese‘s Hugo.

The film screened as a mystery booking at NYFF, which announced last week that it would be showing a new work-in-progress by a master director. By the weekend, all interested parties had essentially figured out that the movie would be "Hugo."

The film tells the story of a young boy who lives in a 1930s Paris train station and whose life intersects with that of the pioneering French director Georges Melies.

Hugo is based on Brian Selznick‘s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and according to viewers, it is less of a children‘s film than Scorsese‘s cinematic history lesson, and his valentine to the early days of cinema.

Before the screening, Scorsese told the audience that his film still needed color correction, some visual effects and additional work on music and sound.